Rachel Lindsay
Laila Seely/Getty ImagesRachel Lindsay She no longer feels connected to Bachelor Nation Bryan Abasolo.
Wednesday, July 3 Scott Evans‘ YouTube SeriesLindsay, 39, was asked about his current position within the franchise.
“It’s weird for you to say this, because right now I feel totally isolated,” she said. “Now I’m going through this divorce, we’re separated, and there’s nothing that ties me to it.”
Lindsay said that it was always her plan to maintain some distance, adding, “My goal when I finished the show was to step away from it and really focus on relationships, but at the same time, let people know that I actually had a life and that I was a human being before.”
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Despite finding love on ABC’s hit dating show and making history as its first ever Black lead, Lindsay didn’t want to be known for that alone.
“I wanted people to say, ‘Oh, that girl was on that show, but I know her from this and that,'” she added. “I’ll never deny that I was the first Black Bachelorette. I’m very proud of that.”
Lindsay and Abasolo, 44, met and became a couple during season 13. Bachelorette They got engaged in 2017. The couple got engaged at the end of their season, but at the time, Lindsay questioned how their story was portrayed to viewers.
Rachel Lindsay and Bryan Abasolo.
Emma McIntyre/Getty Images via Fanatics“The Bachelor franchise believes in happy endings. Some people get their happy endings in front of the cameras, some people get their happy endings off of the cameras, and some people get both,” she wrote in an exclusive blog post in 2018. Us Weekly Following the Bachelorette finale, she said: “My happy ending may not have been shown on a television screen, but I live it out every day in real life.”
Gerrit Clark/Getty Images, Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency/Cover ImagesFormer Bachelor Nation couple Rachel Lindsay and Bryan Abasolo initially remained quiet about their decision to divorce, but more troubling details have since emerged. Us Weekly confirmed that Abasolo filed for divorce from Lindsay in January 2024. According to court documents obtained by Us at the time, he […]
Lindsay and Abasolo married in 2019. we Lindsay confirmed she filed for divorce earlier this year, and the process has taken a messy turn: In documents filed late last month, she asked the court to order her to pay $9,882 per month in spousal support to her ex-husband, while Abasolo has reportedly responded by demanding that Lindsay pay $16,275 per month, according to documents obtained by TMZ.
During an interview on Wednesday, Lindsay spoke candidly about being the subject of “controversy” both during her season and after her time as the Bachelorette ended.
“Everything I did on the show was controversial,” Lindsay said, noting that she “stayed in the role” until the end of the season, but then took a stand about the show’s “lack of diversity,” to no avail.
“People were annoyed with me. They were like, ‘She’s always complaining,’ but no, if you love something, you want it to be the best,” she continued. “I loved the show and everything it gave me. Not necessarily the series, but the audience. I get a lot of love, but the toxic side is a lot louder.”
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Lindsay has been vocal about the series’ lack of racial diversity, and executive producers have spoken out about the issue. Claire Freeland and Bennett Graebner Recently featured in an interview Los Angeles Times.
“It’s difficult for people of color to speak out and say they don’t see representation, that they don’t feel like the Bachelor franchise is a safe space,” Graebner said last month. “The franchise hasn’t had a Black lead in 15 years, and that’s unacceptable. It’s created a cycle that’s taken a lot of work to get back to a place where we can at least feel like we’re making progress.”
Graebner and Freeland said it’s a “priority” to cast black leading roles in future productions. Matt JamesThe “Bachelor” season aired in 2021. Meanwhile, she will be the first Asian lead in “The Bachelorette.” Jen Tran It will take center stage when the show returns on July 8.
